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Adobe Materiality Assessment Overview
In 2015, Adobe worked with Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) to conduct a formal materiality
assessment. The purpose of the materiality assessment was to identify Adobe’s key social,
environmental and economic issues, taking
into consideration
their
relative
importance
to
Adobe’s business success, sustainable development and stakeholder expectations.
Through this process,
issues were ranked against
criteria representing
their
importance
to
business
success
and stakeholders expectations of sustainable development.
The graphic below illustrates the results of the issue prioritization. The issues in the upper right corner represent
the most material issues for Adobe, as they are both important to our business success and the sustainability
expectations of Adobe's stakeholders. Through this process, Corporate Responsibility at Adobe is able to better align
our strategy with the issues of most importance to our stakeholders.
Adobe Materiality Assessment Map
High
Workforce Diversity
Importance to Stakeholders
Local Community Impacts
Sustainability Solutions
Water Management
Materials Use
Low
Ethical Business Practices
STEAM Education
Social Good Products
Responsible Creativity
Employee Volunteerism
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User Access to Technology
Climate Change
Law Enforcement
Relationships
0
Digital Rights
Taxes
Energy Management
Employee Travel
Employee Wellness &
Benefits
Executive Compensation
Waste Management
Low
Importance to Adobe's Business Success
High
August 2015
Adobe Materiality Assessment - 2015
Issue
Employee
Volunteerism
Definition
Adobe employees volunteering in their local communities or providing monetary contributions to qualified organizations.
Minimize hazards and promote employee health, safety, and wellness. This includes ensuring their occupational health and
safety, providing fair and living wages with benefits, such as vacation time, flexible work arrangements, and professional
development opportunities.
Ensuring that the company workforce is diverse and global in outlook, and contains the cultural awareness necessary for
Workforce Diversity Adobe to have the market intelligence required to succeed in new and emerging markets. Includes preventing discriminatory
behaviors and attitudes based on factors such as gender, race, age, and sexual orientation, among others.
Reduce GHG emissions from employee business travel.
Employee Travel
Employee Wellness
and Benefits
Improve the energy efficiency of Adobe’s operations (including data centers and buildings) and the sourcing of low-carbon
energy, such as renewables.
Manage, conserve, and recycle water used for Adobe's business operations and production processes, including impacts to
Water Management
local water sources.
Safe handling, management, minimization and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous solid waste, organics, chemicals,
Waste Management
toxic materials, effluents, and pollutant emissions.
Ensuring responsible sourcing and procurement of materials utilized in Adobe's operation (e.g. equipment at facilities).
Materials Use
Energy Management
Climate Change
Adapting and mitigating the risks and opportunities presented to Adobe's business by climate change, including operations at
data centers.
Sustainability
Designing ICT-based products and services that enable customers to manage and reduce their environmental impacts.
Solutions
Taxes
Ethical Business
Practices
Executive
Compensation
Law Enforcement
Relationships
Local Community
Impacts
Taking a responsible approach to taxation to the countries in which Adobe operates.
Ensuring the highest standards of corporate governance, ethics, and integrity wherever in the world Adobe operates, as well as
with the business partnerships it engages in. This includes working against corruption (e.g. extortion, bribery, and price fixing )
and ensuring responsible management of social and environmental risks in the company supply chain.
The social and market justification for, and ratio between, executive compensation and average employee salaries.
Compliance with laws and standards, and the management of requests for personal information, content restrictions, or
assistance in inquiries from government or law enforcement agencies.
The local and regional social, environmental, and cultural impacts resulting from Adobe operations and foundation programs.
Social Good Products The use of Adobe products and services to improve social well-being.
Responsible
Creativity
User Access to
Technology
Digital Rights
STEAM Education
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Proactive promotion of creative content and digital marketing that encourages responsible and sustainable lifestyles
(e.g. Promoting healthy body image.)
Development and provision of socially inclusive products, services and technologies that increase access (e.g. age, language,
ability, cultural group, gender, income).
The manner in which customer, employee, and corporate data is captured, stored, and transferred in a way that upholds the
right to privacy and is protected from unwanted parties and unauthorized access, such as security threats and cyber-attacks.
Includes the right of users to express themselves freely and seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through media.
This includes Adobe's efforts to influence STEAM education, an area of strategic importance to both the community and
to Adobe's business.
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